College basketball player gunned down on Nashville freeway, police hunting for suspects

A Tennessee assemblage hoops subordinate was changeable and killed portion successful a conveyance connected a Nashville freeway, constabulary said Monday. 

Andre Bell, 20, was a Fisk University sophomore from Jackson, Tennessee. He died astatine Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said. 

Bell was with 2 friends heading backmost to field connected interstate 65 aft attending a gymnastics event. As the trio were successful Bell's Nissan Sentra, the friends noticed a achromatic sedan successful the near lane beside them, constabulary said. 

SUSPECT IDENTIFIED IN KENTUCKY STATE UNIVERSITY SHOOTING THAT LEFT ONE STUDENT DEAD, ANOTHER INJURED

Andre Bell, 20, a Fisk University hoops player, was fatally changeable successful the caput portion heading backmost to campus, constabulary said. 

"Both said they were distracted by their cellphones erstwhile they abruptly heard aggregate gunshots and realized Bell had been hit," a constabulary quality merchandise states. 

The Sentra slowed and spun backmost into postulation earlier colliding with a reddish pickup truck, constabulary said. The acheronian sedan kept going. 

Bell was changeable successful the caput and rushed to the infirmary successful captious information earlier helium died. 

Investigators said grounds suggests that the car from wherever the shots were fired apt has windshield harm based connected the shattered solid astatine the scene.

AT LEAST 1 DEAD IN CAMPUS SHOOTING AT KENTUCKY STATE UNIVERSITY AS GOVERNOR SAYS SUSPECT IN CUSTODY: POLICE

Andre Bell's Nissan Sentra connected I-65 North successful Nashville.  (Metropolitan Nashville Police Department)

In a statement, Fisk University said it was mourning the tragic nonaccomplishment of Bell, a concern medication major.

Fisk men's hoops caput manager Jeremiah Crutcher described Bell arsenic a "gentle young man" who was "unfairly snatched from this world."

 Jubilee Hall astatine Fisk University connected January 1, 2016 successful Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images) (Getty Images)

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"He was a ascendant unit connected the Fisk University Men’s Basketball team, but helium was astir remembered for his infectious smile, loving personality, and unsocial quality to ever bring warmth to a room," helium said. "We present person a heavy lack successful our program, but much importantly, we person a heavy symptom successful our hearts. He volition beryllium genuinely missed. Our thoughts and unwavering prayers are with his household and the small kids successful his household and successful Nashville who looked up to him."